No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives…

“The Persian Rivayats refer to a woman’s barrenness as a viable cause for a man to take a second wife. The impossibility of reproduction…

— Jenny Rose

Cell genetics led us to investigate cell mechanics. Cell mechanics now compels us to infer the structures underlying it. In seeking the mechanism of…

— C. D. Darlington

In no sense other than an utterly trivial one is reproduction the inverse of chemical disintegration. It is a misunderstanding of genetics to suppose…

— Peter Medawar

“First Law In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy is, the…

— George Gilder

We are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have progressed enough…

— E. O. Wilson

As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew…

— David Cobley

“Conception is not some genteel, quiet pastime; it’s a fierce and unforgiving team sport.”

— Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means of reproduction,…

— Gloria Steinem

A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care…

— Robert Smithson

My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the…

— Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work…

— Karl Marx

I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder…

— Mortimer Adler

“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The human egg is a Mrs. Bennet, desperate to marry off her daughters...It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sperm must be in…

— Daryl Gregory